In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with adé Oh (they/themme/àjé) an afro surrealist, animist, and multimedia healing artist. Their creative fire is nourished by earth-based textile crafts, sound arts, experimental and abstract visual arts, nature writing, poetry, capoeira Angola, good food and healing herbs, river time, belly laughter, money, healthy relationships, and peaceful rest. They are a returning generation slow craft artisan and in 2014, made a lifelong commitment to cloth and tapestry weaving. In 2020, they founded dièdiè textile farm and production studio which is currently incubating on collective land Tierra Negra farms. They work with land and sky to grow and process plant-based fibers and dyes for the people. At Gist, we are lucky to support them as one of our artists in residence of 2022 and as a guest on the podcast this week. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-147

In this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Sobia Ahmad, an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores how our deeply intimate struggles of belonging can inform larger conversations about migration, the tenuous notions of home, personal memory, and cultural porosity. While exploring her ancestral knowledge, Sobia reimagines craft rituals and intergenerational storytelling as acts of liberation. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-146

On this week's episode, LaChaun speaks with Christine Jablonski, the Director of Operations for Gist Yarn, and designer of Twofold, our upcoming subscription box for rigid heddle weavers. Her theme for this project is double weave. Over the course of a year, she will take you step by step through this exciting technique to weave four projects of setts, textures, and widths not available with single-heddle weaving. In addition to her duties at Gist, Christine has taught extensively and is also a weaver and exhibiting fiber artist. You can find her on Instagram as @soulspaceart. Twofold Subscription box sign-up: www.gistyarn.com/pages/twofold Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-twofold

Donna Hardy is an indigo grower and dyer located in Athens, Georgia. www.gistyarn.com/episode-54

Kate Sherratt is the Sales and Marketing Manager at Ashford Wheels and Looms, a much beloved spinning and weaving equipment manufacturer in New Zealand. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-53

Sally Fox is an organic bio-dynamic farmer located in the Capay Valley of Northern California. In addition to her climate beneficial wool Sally Fox has made a huge contribution to the genetics of cultivating and bringing naturally colored cotton to the market. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-52

SHENEQUA is a Caribbean textile interdisciplinary artist and weaver. She received her Masters of Design in Fashion, Body, & Garment at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-51

This week we're replaying one of our favorite episodes, with fiber artist and weaver Consuelo Jimenez Underwood. In our conversation, we discuss Consuelo's dreams of becoming an artist as a child working in the fields, why she insisted on making a space for weaving as art in academia, her series of works commemorating the people who lose their lives crossing the highways near the border between Mexico and California, and so much more. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-15

Lauren and Kass Hernandez, Australian-born sisters of Filipino heritage, are the weaving duo behind Crossing Threads. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-50

Rebecca Burgess is the founder of Fibershed, which develops regional and regenerative fiber systems on behalf of independent working producers. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-49

Arianna Funk is a handweaver in Stockholm, and the founder of Weave of the Month Club, a subscription service to liven up the world of weaving drafts. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-48

Cindy Hwang Bokser is a weaver, macrame artist, and the founder of Niroma Studio and The Fiber Artist Podcast. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-47

Schacht Spindle Company manufactures weaving and spinning equipment that is loved the world over by fiber artists. Jane and Barry talk about the history of their company, and celebrating 50 years in business! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-46

In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Shanel Wu. Shanel is a Taiwanese-American, nonbinary, queer, maker who uses their fiber skills to entangle craft and tech. Shanel works with smart textiles, weaving, computational craft, and hardware hacking all while pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Technology Design, at ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder. www.gistyarn.com/episode-137

A favorite from the Weave podcast archive - rigid heddle weaving with Liz Gipson! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-23

A favorite from the Weave podcast archive - tapestry weaving with Rebecca Mezoff! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-11

This week on the podcast, LaChaun is talking with Angela Wartes-Kahl of Fibrevolution. In their conversation, they talk about the history of growing and producing flax for linen in the Pacific Northwest and how Angela is working to revitalize the industry. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-45

Andrea Carpenter, a weaver in Southern California, talks about how she cultivates a creative weaving practice to support her through challenging times, and how feminism influences her work. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-44

Sajata Epps is an artist and weaver who creates textile products using recycled tools and natural materials from her urban gardening collective in the Bronx. LaChaun and Sajata discuss how artists can mitigate the changing cultural climate in the Bronx through conscious community engagement and urban gardening. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-43

Ashley Thurman and Beth Meyer talk about Fibreshare, their international yarn swap! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-42

Sandy Fisher is the founder of Chico Flax, a movement to promote a more self-reliant flax-to-fabric textile industry in the Northern Sacramento Valley. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-41

Cathryn Amidei is an expert Jacquard weaver and teacher, and the instructor at The Jacquard Center. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode40

Kacie Lynn is a textile artist and the founder of Fiber Farm, where she is raising alpacas on a small homestead in the Tennessee foothills. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-39

I (Sarah) am behind the mic this week, talking about how I became a weaver, and what inspired me to create the this little weaving yarn shop and start this podcast. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-38

In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Maud Lerayer. Maud is the founder of Behind The Hill, a textile company based in Brooklyn, New York. Behind The Hill creates unique and contemporary pieces for home decor using a variety of heirloom cotton which grows wild in shades of pink, terra-cotta, green, beige, and white in Mexico and Guatemala. They are partnered with three communities of Indigenous people in Central America who still grow, spin, and weave color-grown cotton, the same way it has been done for centuries. They work directly with their artisan partners, to strive to keep ancient traditions alive while working hand in hand with the weavers. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-136

Julius Tillery is a cotton farmer from Northampton County in North Carolina, and the founder of Black Cotton. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-37

Jane Stafford is a Canadian weaver, a much beloved weaving teacher, and the host of the JST Online Weaving Guild. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/epsiode-36

Mountain Meadow Wool is a woman-owned Wyoming textile mill that is dedicated to supporting local ranchers. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-35

Kathy Hattori is the founder of Botanical Colors, which supplies artisans and the textile industry with beautiful, high quality natural dyes. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-33

This week on the podcast, I’m talking to Kacie Lyn Martinez, participatory fiber artist, facilitator, and systems designer. Kacie uses fiber arts to create spaces, tools, and technologies that honor our humanity. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-32

Angela Laswell Smith is the founder and Creative Director of Purl and Loop, which specializes in making products to help weavers, including their wildly popular Swatch Maker 3-in-1. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-31

Patrice Perillie and Amada Sanchez Cruz are from the Tixinda Dreamweavers, a cooperative of dyers, spinners, and weavers located in Oaxaca, Mexico. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-30

Jen Arron is an artist in Toronto who weaves intriguing sculptural pieces using a wide range of materials and her frame loom. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-29

LaChaun Moore is an artist and weaver, an entrepreneur, a farmer, and also our new Weave Podcast producer! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-28

Irene Schmoller is the founder of Cotton Clouds, a cotton weaving yarn and spinning business which has been beloved by our fiber community for decades. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-27

In this week’s episode LaChaun speaks with Bryana Bibbs. Bryana is a Chicago-based textile artist, painter, and art educator who earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Fiber and Material Studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the founder of the “We Were Never Alone Project, a weaving workshop for victims and survivors of domestic violence. She is a current artist in residence at the Chicago Artist Coalition HATCH and serves on the Surface Design Association’s Education Committee. Bryana’s work has been on view at the Evanston Art Center, ARC Gallery, and the Bridgeport Art Center. Shownotes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-135

Claudia Raessler is co-founder of Maine Dye and Textiles, a dyehouse in Saco, Maine. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-26

This week on the podcast, I’m thrilled to be talking to Val Echavarria. Val is an artist, weaver, and graphic designer in Pasadena, California. She creates a stunning range of woven art pieces, and also makes zipper pouches, tote bags, and other pieces from handwoven and hand-dyed materials. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-25

This week we're talking weaving guilds with Jayne Flanagan! Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-24

Liz Gipson is the founder of Yarnworker, a fantastic resource and teaching community for rigid heddle weavers. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-23

Susan Horton, the Editor of Handwoven Magazine, shares her journey to becoming Editor, her tips for submitting projects to Handwoven, what a week-in-the-life of working on Handwoven is like, and so much more. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-22

Shogo Hirata and Lisa Roos are the two artists behind the cross-cultural weaving collaboration Intertradition. With Intertradition, they take inspiration from the Swedish weaving and pattern tradition and filter this through a Japanese traditional weaving technique, creating what they call intertraditional fabric. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-21

Linda Thalmann is the founder of Paperphine, making gorgeous paper yarns for weavers and other textile artists. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-20

Maryanne Moodie is a fiber artist and weaver in Melbourne, Australia, and author of the book On the Loom: A Modern Weaver's Guide. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-19

Paula Stebbins Becker is both an accomplished industrial textile designer and a woven textile artist who exhibits her work in group shows and galleries nationally. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-18

Cynthia is Filipina, an artist, weaver, weaving activist, teacher, and founder/director of the Brooklyn-based weaving studio, Weaving Hand. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-17

In this week’s episode, LaChaun speaks with Carolina Jimenez a Mexican-American textile artist and designer living in Brooklyn New York. In Carolina’s weaving practice she makes monuments as memory signifiers, and vessels into which the past is poured, molded or reshaped (woven, unraveled, or stretched). These monuments reference the body-her body and ours-they speak to the magnificence of our daily lived experience and the monumentality of the mundane. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-134

Jessica Wilson is a weaver in Houston, Texas and founder of the Houston Fiberfolk Meetup. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-16

Fiber artist and weaver Consuelo Jimenez Underwood is the daughter of migrant agricultural workers, a Chicana mother and a father of Huichol descent. In our conversation, we discuss Consuelo's dreams of becoming an artist as a child working in the fields, why she insisted on making a space for weaving as art in academia, her series of works commemorating the people who lose their lives crossing the highways near the border between Mexico and California, and so much more. Show Notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-15

Bhakti Ziek is a well known artist, weaver, and teacher who currently lives and works in Vermont. Show notes: www.gistyarn.com/episode-14